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Bagged milk hits UK, continues world domination

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Big-E said:
How old are you? I am 23 and have had people tell me that it was like this before, in the darkagaes but I refuse to believe them.
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22. i haven't seen them sinnnnnceee.... bleeehhhhh... probably like 2003.
 
crazy monkey said:
you have amazing avatar :lol
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It's...just...radiohead :)
 
demon said:
Let's see here:

- Buy carton of milk

- Place in fridge

- twist cap off and on in the time it takes to carry it from fridge to countertop

Seriously, neither is a real hassle, but trying to argue that using milk in a bag is somehow easier and involves fewer steps is nonsense.
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It is easier when the bagged milk is ready in the fridge. Take jug out of fridge, pour milk in glass, put jug back into fridge. No need to deal with twisting caps or opening/closing a carton milk. Sure it takes a few extra secs when you need to change bags, but what the hell. A few secs every 2-3 days isn't going to kill anybody.
 
Can't say that I think American milk jugs are good, but even though milk bags work they are still even more :lol
 
I'm not opposed to bagged milk, as i said earlier i plan to try it sometime if i see it in a shop nearby.
However i fail to see how people can possibly think bagged milk is "easier".

Screw off carton lid, pour, replace.
 
Yes! I used this for half a year while in Mexico and it is such a superior way to deal with milk.
 
Reading this thread, I have come to one conclusion. You guys must drink a shit-load of milk.

I don't buy enough milk for this to matter one way or the other.
 
I'm from Ontario and I hate bagged milk. Do you guys put like a clip or something to close the hole in the bag when it's in the fridge? My family has never done that. It just grosses me out to think you have meat defrosting or other food in the fridge and then an open bag of milk.

I don't drink much milk anymore but when I have my own house and do my own shopping it will be cartons or bottles.
 
criesofthepast said:
I'm from Ontario and I hate bagged milk. Do you guys put like a clip or something to close the hole in the bag when it's in the fridge? My family has never done that. It just grosses me out to think you have meat defrosting or other food in the fridge and then an open bag of milk.
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Unless you have a disgusting fridge, it doesn't matter. Seriously, the taste doesn't change at all and the milk is always fresh. Then again, where i live, an opened bag of milk only last 1 or 2 days since there is so many of us.
 
Well what I did was just pour the bags into a pitcher with a lid. The bags were way better for keeping the milk before opening, and the pitcher was way better for pouring than the cheap crappy jugs that milk comes in.
 
Bisnic said:
It is easier when the bagged milk is ready in the fridge. Take jug out of fridge, pour milk in glass, put jug back into fridge. No need to deal with twisting caps or opening/closing a carton milk. Sure it takes a few extra secs when you need to change bags, but what the hell. A few secs every 2-3 days isn't going to kill anybody.
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Why can't you do that with a carton of milk? Best of both worlds, even if the bagged route is pretty stupid to begin with.
 
Bisnic said:
Unless you have a disgusting fridge, it doesn't matter. Seriously, the taste doesn't change at all and the milk is always fresh. Then again, where i live, an opened bag of milk only last 1 or 2 days since there is so many of us.
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No no I know the taste is pretty much the same. It's clearly a mental thing. I'm squeamish like that. Milk doesn't last very long in my fridge either. A bag won't go past a day and a half.
 
Why don't we all just go and lie down underneath cows? That would be better for the environment too.

Clearly one is a sensible shape for a container to store and pour milk from, the other is a bag. What liquids are we going to start putting in bags next? Diet coke? Bleach?
 
mcrae said:
the most you invert the bag is 90 degrees, and that is only when the bag is empty. picture pouring liquid form a pitcher... the bag acts the same as that liquid does, ie only comes out when it you pour... the bag never falls out
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so there is a top to the pitcher? none of the pictures show that so that is prolly why I'm confused :lol
 
weekend_warrior said:
Milk- the Canadain way:



And you wonder why people think Canadains are screwy in the head.
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Not sure how many times it been posted, but in Canada milk is in cartons and jugs too you don't have to buy bags. Most places don't even sell it for Petes sake. And you wonder why people think Americans are stupid.
 
The Waitrose supermarket near me had bags of milk a few months ago. I bought them for a while, and I said to a friend that I'd buy them until one burst in my bag - and that's just what happened. :lol
They've stopped selling them now.
 
I have a friend in Madison, Wisconsin that told me years ago that he gets all his milk in bags. Is it a common thing there, or maybe something that's done by smaller or environmentally conscious dairies?
 
zedge said:
Not sure how many times it been posted, but in Canada milk is in cartons and jugs too you don't have to buy bags. Most places don't even sell it for Petes sake. And you wonder why people think Americans are stupid.
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Yeah I've always wondered why all the Americans go on about Canadians with their bagged milk. I've lived here for a majority of my life and I have yet to see bagged milk.
 
chaostrophy said:
I have a friend in Madison, Wisconsin that told me years ago that he gets all his milk in bags. Is it a common thing there, or maybe something that's done by smaller or environmentally conscious dairies?
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yeah i noticed that when i looked at wikipedia
Milk bags are common in several countries and regions of the world, including Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Eastern Canada, China, Colombia, Estonia, Hungary, India, Israel, Montenegro, Poland, South Africa, Uruguay, Wisconsin, and Babson College.
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kind of weird :lol
 
Good. The hard plastic packaging used in UK is horrific. I try to think of other things every time I throw one into "recycling".
 
zedge said:
Not sure how many times it been posted, but in Canada milk is in cartons and jugs too you don't have to buy bags. Most places don't even sell it for Petes sake. And you wonder why people think Americans are stupid.
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Well stop posting about your damn milk in a bag as if its trendy. And we are stupid because we find it stupid you put milk in bags? Most of the damn world would find it stupid and odd.
 
mcrae said:
you can't LOL at price comparisons because you have no anything to back you up. the article states that the supermarket in question will save money, and pass on the savings to consumers. there is no argument to that, unless you're a conspiracy theorist. go weigh the amount of plastic in an empty gallon container, then weight the amount of plastic in 3 1.3L bags and the bag they come in, if you really want to start on this route.
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The comparison quoted 6 pence on 86 pence for 2-pint containers.

Take a sphere (most volume per surface area):

Volume = 4/3 Pi R^3
Surface Area = 4 Pi R^2

Going from 2 pints to 1 gallon you get quadruple the volume with just over 2.5 times the packaging.

You'll be saving about 15p on the package, not 24p as expected (by scaling up to 4 times the product). Multi-bagging adds inconvenience and is less efficient in terms of packaging. Add to that the fact that the grocer will keep most of the savings, and you'll find that American markets simply won't switch from the staple gallon container to bags.

Obviously cartons and jugs are not spheres, but neither are the bags. And the comparison is valid for any simple volume/surface area scaling problem. This is why we won't ever have to worry about 50-foot tall ants.

This is not about weight. The weight of a milk carton or plastic milk jug is trivial compared to the weight of the product (less than 1 percent), and there is more overhead in the bulk packaging of the bags/cartons/jugs than there is in the individual packaging. This is about the cost of the packaging itself.

But hey, argue against math.

Vgamer said:
Doesnt the milk go bad faster just leaving it open like that?
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Of course it does. But the real concern is the milk stinking up the rest of the fridge.

And to all the "OMG YOU HAVE TO TWIST A CAP" people - we could leave the cap off if we wanted. But we know that would be retarded.
 
Mama Robotnik said:
Bags of milk? How ghastly.

Now, here's the way the world should turn:

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Mr or Mrs Milkperson drops off the full glass bottle in the morning. You useth the Milk. A few days later, whenever you are ready, you leave the empty bottle outside your house. Mr or Mrs Milkperson collects it to be cleaned and refilled, replacing it with a full bottle, and the cycle of life continues.
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A joyful pic for more civilised times.
 
Mudkips said:
The comparison quoted 6 pence on 86 pence for 2-pint containers.

Take a sphere (most volume per surface area):

Volume = 4/3 Pi R^3
Surface Area = 4 Pi R^2

Going from 2 pints to 1 gallon you get quadruple the volume with just over 2.5 times the packaging.
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Jesus Im in a family of 6 and the biggest we buy is 6 pints. I dont even think they go higher than that over here (UK) 2 is the average size really.
 
Has anybody else become incredibly thirsty and went to drink some milk after reading this topic and seeing the pictures?

EDIT: I drank too much too fast, and now I feel sick. :-(
 
LQX said:
Well stop posting about your damn milk in a bag as if its trendy. And we are stupid because we find it stupid you put milk in bags? Most of the damn world would find it stupid and odd.
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There are many other countries who use bags also, even some states in the US.. Again.. Stupid.
 
Wtf, bagged milk?!

I love fresh, cold milk. Could drink it all the time. And milk has to be delivered in bottles. Unfortunately, here in Germany they only have these big 1l bottles. On some of my holidays spent in England, they have these super nice, smaller bottles, that Mama Robotnik posted on the first page of this topic. Really one of the things I love so much about England.
 
Kosma said:
China is still king for selling beer in normal open plastic bags. Only seems to happen in Qingdao though.

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Oh man I hope the pubs start selling beer in bags soon. Friday nights will be awesome :lol
 
zedge said:
There are many other countries who use bags also, even some states in the US.. Again.. Stupid.
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Try 1 state and a handful of counties many of them poor at that. And how does that take away from the fact its odd as hell to be putting milk in a bag and the fact some are acting as if its trendy and getting on as if it should be common knowledge to Americans? Give me break.

And the world can look down on Americans as being stupid (because of crap like our lack of understanding of milk in bag) all they want because at the end of the day our citizens have most likely contributed more knowledge to this world than their citizens ever will. So yeah, be proud of your countries great contribution...milk in a bag.
 
LQX said:
Try 1 state and a handful of counties many of them poor at that. And how does that take away from the fact its odd as hell to be putting milk in a bag and the fact some are acting as if its trendy and getting on as if it should be common knowledge to Americans? Give me break.

And the world can look down on Americans as being stupid (because of crap like our lack of understanding of milk in bag) all they want because at the end of the day our citizens have most likely contributed more knowledge to this world than their citizens ever will. So yeah, be proud of your countries great contribution...milk in a bag.
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Typical response. Fuck off with the American superiority bullshit. Another arrogant stupid post. Butt hurt Americans always turn these threads into shit shows.
 
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